Saint Joseph Catholic Church

Archbishop Michel Jalakh, O.A.M., issued an appeal “not to close our eyes to the suffering” of Lebanon and “not to think that it is far removed from us: we must always continue, at the very least, to speak about it.”

The prelate lamented a recent Israeli attack on Beirut: an “attack against peaceful people who were more than just displaced: they had gone to sleep on the beach, and there they were killed.”

Archbishop Jalakh described conditions in Lebanon as “terrible” and the nation as paralyzed, as “monasteries, universities, and other centers” are filled with people displaced in the war there.

The Vatican newspaper lamented the Iran war’s child casualties and decried the humanitarian effects of the Israeli bombardment of Lebanon.

Archbishop Jajou is the senior member (by date of episcopal ordination) of the Permanent Synod of the Chaldean Catholic Church. The prelate’s appointment, the Chaldean Patriarchate stated, was made in accord with the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (n. 127).

On March 10, Pope Leo XIV accepted the resignation of Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako, 76, the Eastern Catholic church’s Patriarch since 2013.